Trade & Free Agency 2026/2027

[DanSchwartzgan]

You know I agree with the logic here on basically all of this, but I'm struggling to see as clear of a fit here for Mathurin now after the Marshall extension. It's not like it would be a horrible fit now, but I don't love it nearly as much as I did before that extension came into existence.

I tend to agree that both of them playing together is potentially challenging.  I think much would depend on the contract terms for Mathurin.  We tend to think all of these moves as permanent and they aren't.  To some extent we are acquiring talent and probably more than we can play in the near term.  But, if you are going to do a consolidation trade at some point, you need to make sure you aren't stripped to the bone after sending out 3-4 players for one star.

There is an easy enough near term solution for Naji/Mathurin and that would be to start one of them.